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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Bangladesh Awami League Corruption:

Corrupted rail minister resigns.

S.M. Anwar Hossain; Yes, i am going to talk about Bangladesh Awami League! The political party running the government since January 06, 2009 in Bangladesh. Earlier i wrote about the MPs representing this political party and about their behaviors. About their corruptions. About their revenge on Bangladesh Army. Now this time you even watch how this minister take the responsibility about his corruption. He is Mr. Suranjit Sengupta. Former Railway Minister of Bangladesh appointed by Bangladesh Awami Leage.
Barely five months into taking over as railway minister, Suranjit at a crowded press briefing on Monday announced he was stepping down in light of his discussion with the prime minister the night before.
“At the meeting with the prime minister on Sunday night, I told her that I wanted to relieve myself of the charge of the railway ministry, and she happily accepted it,” a pale-looking Suranjit had told the press briefing at the Rail Bhaban.
He also took "full responsibility" for the railwaygate scandal surrounding the recovery of Tk 70 lakh form the microbus of his now-fired assistant personal secretary on the night of April 9.
The money is said to have been part of the bribe taken from railway job seekers, and the microbus carrying Omar Faruq Talukder, the sacked APS, and two other top railway officials was headed for Suranjit's Jigatola residence.The two railway officials are now-suspended general manager (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and suspended Dhaka division security commandant Enamul Huq.
Driver Ali Azam Khan drove the vehicle into the BGB Pilkhana headquarters in the capital, having been refused Tk 5 lakh as a share of the amount, sources told The Daily Star.
The four men were kept in BGB's custody that night.
The BGB claimed to have freed them all the next day, but Enamul told this paper after his release that the border force had not freed Azam.
Azam has remained untraced since. Contacted by The Daily Star, his family could not say anything about his whereabouts since the scandal surfaced.
Meanwhile, more than a week into the sensational railwaygate scam that led to Suranjit's resignation, the police have neither filed any case in this connection nor launched any drive to trace Azam.
Inspector General of Police Hassan Mahmood Khandker said his force did not move as no complaint had been lodged in this regard.
“We'll take steps if the family members of the missing person or the probe bodies formed in this connection request us to find him," he told The Daily Star yesterday.
Today, the Anti-Corruption Commission is set to interrogate Mridha and Enamul about their involvement in the scandal.
The anti-graft body summoned them to appear before a three-member committee formed yesterday to probe their role and also that of Faruq in the incident.